NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led by the University of Iowa (UI) with substantial contributions from Southwest ...

The University of Iowa's TRACERS mission successfully launched, studying the interaction between Earth's magnetic field and solar wind. The twin satellites will observe magnetic reconnection, which ...

NASA’s TRACERS mission (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) headlines a July 22, 2:13 p.m. EDT Falcon 9 rideshare launch, flying alongside several secondary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The next satellites SpaceX helps to deliver to orbit from Southern California won't be its own, but rather two of NASA's.

Shown in this artist’s concent, Southwest Research Institute managed NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, which has entered its final ...

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission, a critical scientific endeavor to study Earth’s magnetic field, encountered an unexpected setback on ...

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission will study "magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere," according to the Goddard Space ...

Twin satellites, TRACERS, will launch to study how solar energy breaches Earth's magnetic shield. The mission aims to understand magnetic reconnection, a process disrupting satellites and triggering ...

The future of space discovery has never been clearer as NASA and researchers across the nation plan to launch twin satellites in less than six months. In 2019, University of Iowa physicist Craig ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — UPDATE: Tuesday's launch was pushed to Wednesday. As a result, the TRACERS mission launch watch party has been rescheduled to Wednesday, July 23, from 12:30 to 3 p.m., with the ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Tuesday was supposed to mark the launch of NASA's TRACERS satellite mission. It's the largest space project ever launched by the University of Iowa. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

Earth's magnetosphere protects our planet from being constantly bombarded by solar wind that can disrupt satellites, GPS and other technology. To better understand the phenomenon, NASA plans to place ...